Overview
Students are the protagonists of Blue Archive, they live and run the Academy City of Kivotos within their respective School Group and School Club, they are mostly known for possessing a Halo, which gives them inhuman strength. They are the main obtainable units in the game.
Befitting of the name, Students are for the most part children who live their lifes in the constantly chaotic world of Kivotos with the help of their only adult teacher, Sensei. Students happen to be incredibly powerful individuals on their own possessing various different powers.
Students are part of the Sublime, specifically being the Mystic of it.
Summary
The Default state of the students, representing the body and that which we can see, hear, and feel.
Abilities
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Students are much stronger than the average human, bullets bounce off of their skin and they're casually able to tank grenades that can blow up an entire building. Even weaker students are capable of running faster than Mach 3 and have a strength of 5 Metric Tons)
- Regeneration (High-Low; Students possess high-speed healing prowess, being able to heal torn lingaments and various grave injuries that are said to be "Extremely Grotesque" for the human eye, even if it damages over 48% of their body)
- Weapon Mastery & Martial Arts (Students from Kivotos, even at the young age of 11, are trained at using artillery such as firearms and explosives)
- Acrobatics (Students are able to perform several acrobatic manuevers, even being able to jump entire buildings and reach helicopters with a single leap)
- Reactive Power Level & Accelerated Development (Battle, Training, and Passive - Physical Stats and Other; Students are constantly growing in strength, surpassing any accurate and flawless data that tries to compute their strength. They're were shown to even be able to grow in strength in the middle of battle, surpassing even perfect plans to defeat them due to the sheer increase in strength and speed. This development is exponential, Students were shown to increase their own levels of strength, speed, durability, and more from just a few battles, even when forced to retreat. Enemies previously seen as invincible and impossible to defeat were overpowered, and outsped by students in a short amoutn fo time. Strong students, such as Hoshino, even recognize that she'll eventually be surpassed by those weaker than her)
- Adaptation (Students, such as Plana, are able to adapt to the hostile enviroment of The Throne of Naram-Sin, becoming essentially immune to it)
- Non-Physical Interaction (Souls, Minds, Information, Concepts, Stories, Rumors & Symbols; Students are able to harm Nameless Gods such as The Fury of Set. They're also able to beat fodder Phantom Fables, such as the Artifact Spirits, who are spirits born from ghost stories and rumors. Can also harm and defeat Perorodzilla, self-made Sublime existence born from urban legends, ghost stories, and creepypastas)
- Damage Boost (With Critical Hits)
- Durability Negation (Students have a stat called "Defense Penetration", which allows their shots to ignore the enemy's Defense)
- Statistics Amplification (Students can strengthen and support other students with their own strength and power)
- Mind Manipulation (Students can destroy mental spaces)
- Damage Reduction (Students can equip different types of armor that will protect against certain ammunition types)
- Explosion Manipulation, Piercing Damage, Magic, Sound Manipulation/Vibration Manipulation (With many different types of ammunition)
- Limited Abstract Existence, Acausality (Type 4), Large Size (Type 11), Non-Corporeal and Nonexistent Physiology (Type 2) for their Soul (A student's Terror, part of their Sublime and opposite of Mystic, is akin to an idea beyond human comprehension)
- Immersion (Students can enter Mental Spaces)
Resistances
- Damage Boost & Probability Manipulation (Through the CRIT.RES and CRIT.RES.DMG stats, Students can decrease the amount of times a Critical hit will strike them, aswell as the damage of said Critical hit)
- Status Effect Inducement through CC Resist stat, Students are able to resist the effects of Crowd Control, which includes the following:
- Bind: Prevents the target from attacking. (Power Nullification)
- Charm: Will make the target attack their allies. (Empathic Manipulation and Morality Manipulation)
- Confusion: Will cause the target to attack allies over enemies. (Confusion Inducement)
- EMP: Prevents the target from moving, attacking, and using skills. (Electro-Magnetism Manipulation)
- Fear: Makes the target afraid and run away from the battlefield. (Fear Manipulation)
- Mind Control: Makes the enemy have control over the target. (Mind Manipulation)
- Paralysis: Target is unable to move. (Paralysis Inducement)
- Provoke: Causes the user to be targetted by the target. (Empathic Manipulation)
- Silence: Target is unable to use any skill. (Power Nullification)
- Freeze: Target is unable to do anything. (Ice Manipulation)
- Stun: Target is unable to use skills, attack, and move. (Mind Manipulation)
- Existence Erasure, Chaos Manipulation, Dimensional Manipulation, Void Manipulation, Absorption, Fusionism, Space-Time Manipulation and Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3: Students are immune to the effects of The Throne of Naram-Sin)
- Madness Manipulation (Students were unnafected by the light of The Chroma spread through Kivotos by the False Sanctun Towers)
- Heat Manipulation, Magma Manipulation, and Fire Manipulation (Students are able to fight Chokmah while inside an active volcano, they are also able to withstand Chokmah's fire and lava attacks)
- Poison Manipulation (Students are just fine breathing Phophorus Gas)
- Transmutation and Information Manipulation (Students can survive the effect of an Ark of ATRAHASIS, which transforms all the surrounding data)
- Reality Warping, Law Manipulation and Physics Manipulation (Unnafected by the False Sanctum Tower's energy which warps and defies the laws of physics)
- Unconventional resistance to Matter Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Information Manipulation and Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3; The Sublime contains all aspects of being and exists on a deeper level than Mystics or Terrors, which defines matter, souls, minds, fundamental information and concepts that shape reality)
Summary
Through the reversal of Mystic, students will become Terror and have it dominate their existence, reversing them to the state of a Nameless Gods, a irreversable process akin to resurrecting the dead. Students reversed to Terror possess all their Mystic abilities as well as some more.
Abilities
- Abstract Existence, Acausality (Type 4), Non-Corporeal, Large Size (Type 11), and Nonexistent Physiology (Type 2: Through the reversal of Mystic, a student's Sublime is reversed to their original state of terror, where they become Nameless Gods, becoming an idea beyond human comprehension)
- Matter Manipulation and Information Manipulation (Nameless Gods can frely manipulate matter/data to fit their desires)
- Fate Manipulation and Probability Manipulation (Nameless Gods can see within a oncean of infinite possibilities and choose whichever one will be reality)
- Energy Manipulation and Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3: The power of the Nameless Gods is able to distort and warp matter into concepts such as the Ark)
- Absorption (Can absorb their energy and use it as they please)
- Beyond-Dimensional Existence (The Underground Dweller, a descendant of The Celetial Pantheon, sees and interacts with everything as if it was a tabletop game)
- Chaos Manipulation, Void Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Existence Erasure, Reality Warping (Underground Dweller, a descendant of the Celestial Pantheon, was able to create his own Throne of Naram-Sin)
- Dimensional Manipulation and Quantum Manipulation (Aris' Sword of Light: Supernova, created through the usage of Nameless Gods power, can destroy the Multidimensional Barrier)
Summary
The Sublime in Blue Archive are the basis of one's existence and is the fundamental essence that defines one's identity as themselves. All the previous sections exist as a result of a Student's Sublime, in which Mystic and Terror are identified as the same, with Maestro using the analogy of Mystic and Terror being two sides of the same coin.
This suggests that all aspects of being are defined by "The Sublime" and given that this is implied, this would mean that a Student's Sublime contains the following components:
- Matter: Mystic is described as being the physical bodies of a Student and is what we can see and hear regarding a Student
- Souls / Minds / Information / Concepts: Terror is described as everything we can't see regarding a Student, representing their souls, minds, fundamental information and the conceptions embodied by The Nameless Gods, which shape reality and all phenomena
With this in mind, this would mean that The Sublime gets Abstract Existence, Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Information Manipulation and Conceptual Manipulation as these components of being are defined by The Sublime and exist on an ontologically lesser level than one's own Sublime
In addition, this would imply that Conceptual Manipulation of at least 1 Layer is necessary to affect a Student's Sublime, as it exists even deeper than the concepts embodied by a Terror and is a fundamental essence that defines even the Nameless Gods